Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 12:21 am Post subject: Republicans show how out of touch they are

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Maine state Senate candidate Colleen Lachowicz is not a witch.

She is, however, an orc assassination rogue with a potty mouth — and the Maine Republican Party believes that disqualifies her from public office.

In an unusual press release issued Thursday, the Maine GOP attacked Lachowicz for a “bizarre double life” in which she’s a devotee of the hugely popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft. In the game, she’s “Santiaga,” an "orc assassination rogue" with green skin, fangs, a Mohawk and pointy ears.

This is a lot less "out of touch" than the supposedly tolerant and liberal Democrats persecuting a candidate for having Wicca as her religion. Hypocrites!_________________Deja Moo: the feeling that you've heard this bull before

Last edited by Bones McCracker on Fri Oct 05, 2012 12:51 am; edited 2 times in total

Yeah? And how many of that 12 million are Level 62 characters? Do you have any idea how much investment of your personal time is required to get to such levels? That behavior is actually now considered an addiction. It's not healthy, and it is worthy of ridicule and with respect to WoW in particular, because of it's immersive, alternate-reality-escapism, it has been an subject of ridicule in popular culture for years.

What's not worthy of ridicule in a free country is someone's spiritual beliefs, which are Constitutionally protected to the extent they don't interfere with the rights of others._________________Deja Moo: the feeling that you've heard this bull before

Yeah? And how many of that 12 million are Level 62 characters? Do you have any idea how much investment of your personal time is required to get to such levels? That behavior is actually now considered an addiction. It's not healthy, and it is worthy of ridicule and with respect to WoW in particular, because of it's immersive, alternate-reality-escapism, it has been an subject of ridicule in popular culture for years.

What's not worthy of ridicule in a free country is someone's spiritual beliefs, which are Constitutionally protected to the extent they don't interfere with the rights of others.

Yeah? And how many of that 12 million are Level 62 characters? Do you have any idea how much investment of your personal time is required to get to such levels? That behavior is actually now considered an addiction. It's not healthy, and it is worthy of ridicule and with respect to WoW in particular, because of it's immersive, alternate-reality-escapism, it has been an subject of ridicule in popular culture for years.

What's not worthy of ridicule in a free country is someone's spiritual beliefs, which are Constitutionally protected to the extent they don't interfere with the rights of others.

actually, getting to level 62 is easy as pie. you'd easily get that if you spent an hour or two each week and played for a while. that has nothing to do with an addiction. the kind of involvement you'd have invested when you do have a solid addiction would lead to an account with 10-20 level 85s and (by now) one to three level 90s.

i don't see why either of them should get in trouble. one is just a game, the other is just some odd random faith. actually it would do most polytards a world of good to play some video games now and then. at least that way they'd be far less out of touch with the rest of the planet._________________"Confident, lazy, cocky, dead." -- Felix Jongleur, Otherland

Yeah? And how many of that 12 million are Level 62 characters? Do you have any idea how much investment of your personal time is required to get to such levels? That behavior is actually now considered an addiction. It's not healthy, and it is worthy of ridicule and with respect to WoW in particular, because of it's immersive, alternate-reality-escapism, it has been an subject of ridicule in popular culture for years.

What's not worthy of ridicule in a free country is someone's spiritual beliefs, which are Constitutionally protected to the extent they don't interfere with the rights of others.

actually, getting to level 62 is easy as pie. you'd easily get that if you spent an hour or two each week and played for a while. that has nothing to do with an addiction. the kind of involvement you'd have invested when you do have a solid addiction would lead to an account with 10-20 level 85s and (by now) one to three level 90s.

i don't see why either of them should get in trouble. one is just a game, the other is just some odd random faith. actually it would do most polytards a world of good to play some video games now and then. at least that way they'd be far less out of touch with the rest of the planet.

Oh. My bad. I thought it took many hours to get a character to a high level like that. I still say it's more justifiable and acceptable to ridicule a political candidate for being a serious World of Warcraft player than for their religious beliefs. But it was a tu quoque argument anyway, so I won't go further with it. People really shouldn't be ridiculed for either._________________Deja Moo: the feeling that you've heard this bull before